Help On Mosaic v1.1
If you have accessed this document from the Help On Version menu selection in
NCSA Mosaic, you are using version 1.1.
Version 1.1 includes the following changes from
version 1.0:
- Hotkeys
in document view windows.
- Color leaks and glitches in inlined image support fixed.
- Support for
TMPDIR
environment variable, as well as resource
tmpDirectory
and command-line flag
-tmpdir, for specifying location of tmp directory for transient data files.
- Added GUI-supported modification of hotlist entry titles.
- Added ISMAP tag support to IMG tag (courtesy Tony Sanders).
- CSO phonebook support (courtesy Lou Montulli).
- Added printing/saving straight to PostScript (courtesy Ameet A. Raval). No support for images yet, though.
- Fixed typo in Motif 1.2 support in HTML widget.
- Fixed typo (nothing was broken, just caused it to be a little slow sometimes) in document page handling.
- Two spaces between sentences in pretty selections now.
- SGML comments are now ignored.
- Updated copyright notice.
- Documentation hyperlinks point straight to new NCSA server.
- Mosaic can now be remotely controlled via signals by a parent process; e.g., to allow use as a browser for context-sensitive help from another application. (More information.)
- Default rgbViewerCommand is now 'xv' on non-SGI platforms, since xv 3.0 now handles SGI RGB files.
- New WAIS interface document, pointing to NCSA gateway.
- URL of document is now sent in 'Mail To...' messages.
<cite>
now supported.
<blockquote>
now supported.
<var>
now uses italics.
- Fixed rare parsing/layout coredumps.
- Fixed rare pretty selection coredumps.
- Fixed stupid memory and file-handling glitches; made hotlist and other config file-handling much more robust.
- Properly handle (nuke) newlines in titles and URL's now.
- Fixed rare stupid coredumps in Motif lists.
- No more coredump when saving/printing/mailing empty file.
- Mosaic now has no default geometry resource value. Initial window placement and toplevel dialog placement will be entirely according to your window manager's settings.
- Added resource percentVerticalSpace to allow customization of the space between paragraphs, between headers and paragraphs, etc. in the HTML widget.
- Fixed coredump when starting Mosaic with home page a directory with no slashes in the specification.
- Added recognition of '.gz' for gzip'd files, as per GNU change.
- Fixed glitch with X bitmaps served by Gopher servers as inlined images.
- Added editres support.
- Added Motif 1.2 tearoff menu support.
- Better DEC Alpha OSF/1 support.
- Better Dell SVR4 support.
- A few more source cleanups for NeXT support.
- Reorganized Documents menu and added new options to Help menu.
- Added support for group annotation server (not yet available).
- Cleaned up src/Makefile (some).
- Suffixes
.dump
and
.saveme
are now recognized and trigger binary file dump to local disk.
- Busy cursor now shows up more often, like it should.
- HDF files are now recognized and passed to Collage via Collage's -load option, which is recognized by Collage 1.2 (alpha).
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups.
Other Information
Information on other versions of NCSA Mosaic is
here.
General information on NCSA Mosaic is available
here.